South LJ 3/3 and 3/4

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Saturday and Sunday I launched near Big Rock in tiny surf and gin clear
water after fishing the beach for some halibut from the sand.

Saturday the rockfish deepwater bite was goin' on at 120 feet or so,
somewhere off Bird Rock. I released between 8 and 10 lingcod and
managed 4 vermillion, a couple sculpin and some bass, all on 2 oz plastics.
It was dead in my usual hardbottom haunts outside off of Marine St area.





Sunday was a beautiful day and I wanted to drift for halibut. Loaded the
tank with 10 smelt and some big macs on the inside and headed off Bird
Rock area to 60-80' of water. Water temp was showing 60+. Got a number
of sand bass and nice calicos on bait, before having 2 mutu lights
straightened out using smelt. Changed to bigger hooks with macks, and
got freight trained on 12" mack into the kelp which eventually broke off
and another something big came unbuttoned in the stringers. Jeez
I need some practice. At 2 pm the wind kicked in strong from the North
and I was outta bait.

Free divers saw some wsb ... big ones out there.